spik

spik (plural spiks)

1. Alternative spelling of spic.
   • 2008, Dr. Kevin Leman, Have a New Kid by Friday, page 195:

     So it really got to me when my daughter went to kindergarten and came home saying, 'Mommy, what's a spik? Some kid called me a spik.'

• Kips, PIKs, kips, KPIs, Skip, skip, KIPS

From Old Norse spik.

• IPA^(key): /spiːk/

  Rhymes: -iːk

spik n (genitive singular spiks, uncountable)

1. blubber, especially of grindahvalur (pilot whale)

tvøst og

• whale meat and blubber (traditional meal)

• kips
• skip

From Old Norse spik.

• IPA^(key): /spɪːk/

  Rhymes: -ɪːk

spik n (genitive singular spiks, no plural)

1. blubber (of whales, seals, etc.)
2. body fat, especially if excessive

• skip

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

spik n (genitive spiks, plural spik)

1. blubber (of whales, seals, etc.)

• Faroese: spik
• Icelandic: spik

• skip

From spać +‎ -ik.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈspik/

spik m inan

1. (Kuyavia) synonym of sen (“sleep”)

• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “spik”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 276

From Old Norse spíkr, from Proto-Germanic *spīkaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“expand, extend, stretch”).

• IPA^(key): /spiːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk

spik c

1. a nail (spike-shaped metal fastener)

   slå i en spik med en hammare

   drive a nail with a hammer

2. (collectively) nails (spike-shaped metal fasteners)

   hammare och spik

   hammer and nails

3. an (almost) fail-safe bet
4. (horse gambling) a single (sometimes a banker); a bet on only a single horse (to win) in a race

   En spik i lopp 5.

   A single in race 5.

   Häst 3 är en säker spik i lopp 4.

   Horse 3 is a banker in race 4.

   (literally, “Horse 3 is a safe single in race 4.”)

5. hole in one (in miniature golf)
6. (in some compounds) completely, utterly
7. (glassblowing) a rod of iron used in manual production of glass objects. May have all kinds of length and diameter, and can be used in many different ways. May be hollow inside, but must never have any hole on the tip. Must not be confused with puntel and the glass-blower pipe.

• småspik (“small nails”)
• spiknykter (“cold sober”)
• spikrak

• spika
• spikning

• nagel (“nail (on a finger or toe)”)
• nubb (“tack”)

• spik in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• spik in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• spik in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)